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Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about electives.
Electives I want to design, like one about Youtube creation and one about Taylor Swift, and the amazing electives teachers in our community are designing and teaching around the world.
So of course I’m really excited that today on the podcast we’ve got the first show in a new series about creative electives. My hope is that this series will bring you inspiration for new electives you can propose or new units you can teach, modeled on your favorite parts of other people’s electives, within your current courses.
I’ll be interviewing teachers about some of their favorite electives - what they are, what they accomplish, and how they do it.
On today’s show we're diving into an interview with Amanda Beal, a creative teacher in Northern Minnesota. She’s going to be talking about a powerful elective for the world today, when we are so divided and yet so fearful of talking about the issues that divide us. I’m going to let her reveal the name and nature of this elective in just a moment - so stay tuned.
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070: Help for Student Apathy, with Dave Stuart Jr.
069: 40 Ways to Reduce your Grading Time
068: Confronting Teacher Exhaustion, with Angela Watson
067: Look Forward to Teaching Vocabulary
066: We Need More Diverse Books
065: Final Exams that feel Meaningful
064: A Beginner's Guide to Writing Workshop
063: Using Stations Creatively in ELA
062: When Students Choose their Own Assessments, with David Rickert
061: Using Podcasts as Texts in ELA
060: Students won't read? Don't care? One Year to Change That
059: Maybe Teaching doesn't have to be so Lonely
058: How to Match Student Readers with Books they'll Love
057: Creative Tech Tools for ELA Teachers, with Jennifer Gonzalez
056: Get Funding with Donors Choose (Dos and Don'ts)
055: Hyperdocs, Authentic Audience, and Screencastify with Kristy Louden
054: Winter Holiday Activities for ELA
053: How to Plan a Unit in 30 Minutes
052: The Easy Guide to Blackout Poetry
051: Mock Trials and E-mail Etiquette with The Daring English Teacher
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